a

subject

sion to

which it i3 the

study.

however, like to

leper

should be

of business

tion,

or

object

of the Commis-

One addition which see

made to the

we

Bill,

would,

is that

no

permitted

to engage in any kind

to the

manufacture, preparahope the Government

relating

sale of food.

We

will approve of the suggestion. The disease is of loathsome a nature that it is absolutely

so

to all to think that the milk

repugnant

we

are

drinking may have been handled by a leper, and yet instances of this kind are not unknown in Calcutta, milked

in which the

by that

a

man

lepers should

tables and meat the

THE LEPER BILL. As

a

tentative

measure

until the Commission

Inquiry Leprosy shall have completed its investigations, we think that the Leper Bill, of

on

as

drafted by

the Government and

which

we

publish in our present issue, is satisfactory. With the decision of the College of Physicians before them, the Government could hardly make the Bill other than permissive. We believe the result of an inquiry will be to render compulsory segregation of lepers necessary, but it would be unwise to legislate in advance, and 011

has been

leprous

regularly

hands.

Then

handle the fruits, vegebrought to our tables, or prepare loaves in a bakery, is most revolting, to say least of it, to ordinary ideas of cleanliness.

again,

the

cow

with